Some days ago I requested two projects on sourceforge named xith3d and xith-tk. Today they've been approved.

As stated on the dev-plan 1.0 and accepted by the community I'll move the CVS code to SVN from dev.java.net to sourceforge... if nobody objects. I'll try to migrate the history as well.

To not to make a too quick rush, I'll wait until sunday. So please don't commit anything to CVS from sunday 12:00 AM (GMT+1).

And please send me a PM or mail, to ask for membership on the sourceforge projects. Don't forget to register on sourceforge first.

We should mark the dev.java.net projects something like "migrated" or so. Son't know if that's possible.

Together with the migration I'll make the step to rename the "com.xith3d" package to "org.xith3d" just as discussed earlier.

Marvin

Wow, big changes coming... Stratagem (my game) is now also officially a sourceforge.net project (not yet committed, though).*PLEASE* try as much much much as possible to keep history or we'd better keep on CVS.

We can put a note on dev.java.net projects with "go see on sourceforge.net" but I have owner access only for xith-tk, not xith3d.

Wow, big changes coming... Stratagem (my game) is now also officially a sourceforge.net project (not yet committed, though).*PLEASE* try as much much much as possible to keep history or we'd better keep on CVS.

Well, there's a documentation to be found on sourceforge to do this. I thik it won't be a problem. But if it - agains all expectations - won't, it's not a too big problem, since the case when we needed to revert to a privious version doesn't happen too often. And if you just want to have a look into an older version, you can easily use web-cvs on dv.java.net.

I tried to make the migration to SVN, but this task has to wait for a moment . To really migrate all of the history I need a copy of the RCS files from the dev.java.net CVS projects. I sent a message to the dev.java.net people to offer these files to me. So we'll have to wait until these guys report to me.

Or maybe I misunderstood something. Does anybody have an extended CVS knowlegement and can tell me, that this is not necessary? Then I would happily being guided by you .

dev.java.net also offers Subversion. We can migrate an existing CVS repositoryto Subversion. However it is a billable service from CollabNet.There is one option to delete and recreate the project or create a new projectwith Subversion but in that case the history will be lost and all project toolswill be reinitialized.

If you wish to migrate to sourceforge, our Operations team can help you get thethe CVS respository dump however, it is again a billable service from CollabNet.

Please let me know your preference on the above.

Best wishes,Padmajava-net site administration

Unfortunately we can't get the RCS files without paying for them. So I guess we have to migrate without the history and look into it on dev.java.net, when we need it.

So if nobody has a better solution, I'll do the migration on Saturday 12:00 am (GMT+1).

I've just got an answer concerning the costs for getting the repository dump. And fortunately it is for free

Here is the mail quote:

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Hi Marvin,

I am delighted to say that our Operations team has agreed to provide CVS2SVN and CVS dump services for the projects xith3d and xith-tk free of charge.

Please let me know which service you would want to opt for.

I will also need the following information:

1) Preferred Time Frame for Service (Especially in case of CVS2SVN service as during such time the repository will not be accessible)2) Contact information for 2 contacts in your projectOne of them should be the Project Owner for the repository being worked on, or a Technical lead for said repository. Please gather Name, Telephone Number, and Email Address of both contacts3) Are there any non-ascii characters in any directory structures, filenames, or meta-data? If so, list the encodings used within the repository

I am CCing the project owners of xith3d and xith-tk project for their awareness.

Please do revert if you had more questions.

We hope you opt for the CVS2SVN conversion.

Best wishes,Padmajava-net site administration

I guess we still want to migrate to sourceforge. So I'll ask Padma for the dumps. As you can read I need a second person for both projects. Amos and Will, could you please mail me your contact information? I don't know if Amos or me are enough for the core project so we need Will for this. But for the toolkit Amos and me should be enough.

When I have the contact info I'll post a new time frame, when the migration will be done.

Any further questions?

Marvin

PS: I guess, instead of binary files we don't have any non ascii files in the projects. Am I right?

I've just (and finally) got an answer from Padma on dev.java.net about the CVS dump. I'll do the migration to sourceforge on sunday 14:00 (GMT+1). I'll also migrate all changes committed to CVS up to this time even if they're not contained in the CVS dump.

In case of big problems of package/class naming, there will be a bit more of refactoring.. but users "ne seront plus à ça près" (=won't mind cause they will have already done refactoring with the com->org change).

The sourceforge migration is in progress. When the sourceforge server is ready, we can use the repositories. I'll post here, when it's done and I have migrated the changes made after 2006-10-23 (dump-date).

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